This study analyzed the impact of off-farm earnings on the intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties and the productivity of maize farming in Uganda in the years 2005/06 and 2009/10. Summary statistics show significantly higher adoption intensity and expenditure on purchased inputs among households with off-farm income relative to their counterparts without off-farm income. Households w...

PURPOSE Operating or riding on farm equipment is one of the leading causes of farm-related injuries and fatalities among children and adolescents. The aim of this study is to examine environment, crash, vehicle, and occupant characteristics and the probability of injury, given a crash, in youth under age 18 on farm equipment. METHOD Data from the Departments of Transportation on farm equipmen...

To quantify the respiratory disease burden among agricultural workers, we examined the 1988-1998 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) "Multiple Cause of Death Data" and the 1988-1994 Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data (NHANES III). Proportionate mortality ratios (PMRs) were determined for 11 respiratory conditions among 6 agricultural groups: crop farm workers, ...

Using longitudinal panel data from the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal, this study investigates the impact of the use of modern farm technologies on fertility transition-specifically, the number of births in a farm household. Previous explanations for the slow pace of fertility transition in rural agricultural settings often argued that the demand for farm labor is the primary driver of high fe...

In 2012, the authors undertook a study of the challenges facing government and private veterinarians in responding to the human element of farm animal welfare incidents (i.e. the personal problems and difficulties of farmers that can result in farm animal neglect). This paper reports their findings and examines the role of veterinarians in responding to the difficulties of farmers. It also look...

This article studies the relationship between the off-farm participation behavior of farm operators and their spouses and the demographic composition of the household. I focus on farm families without parents, siblings or partners, and examine the effects of the existence of elderly children of the farm couple. I find that both the father and the mother tend to reduce their participation in off...

This paper presents the wind farm simulation model developed in the EU-FP7 project, AEOLUS. The idea is to provide a publicly available simulation package for researchers developing farm level control solutions. With the software it is possible to auto generate a wind farm simulation model in Matlab/Simulink based on turbine parameters and farm geometry. The input to the farm simulator is power...

Recent patterns of rural land use in Georgia have forest land market. Simultaneous equations will stressed urban aggrandizement and the emphasize the structural interdependence of these transformation of a significant portion of the two markets. Cross-sectional data from 47 Georgia available rural land into forests. The area covered by counties will be used to estimate the structural commercial...

Korean pig farms face challenges from free trade environment. Many farms have adopted Information System to improve the productivity on the farm. This study applies statistical analysis to verify the productivity gain and its determinants by using information system on the pig farm. Using the farm level weekly data from the PigPlan from 2006 to 2012, we find productivity gain on the farm increa...

In a wind farm, the wakes formed by upstream wind turbines decrease the power outputs of downstream wind turbines by reducing wind speed. This wake interference significantly lowers the power production of a wind farm, especially that of a large-scale wind farm. In this paper, we express wind farm power as a differentiable function of location variables. We then apply a sequential convex progra...